The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-21
AFFAIRS IN GERMANY.
War Numors Ovorshndowcd by Politics.
bismarck Confident Of u Majority. ~ :

bismarck Confident Of a Majority.
BERLIN, Feb. l8.-Thers ia pause II
the intennity Of the electoral Hgnt pend
Ing Mondays polling. The coAmitteel
everywhere continue active, but there /.
a momentary lull in the public agitation
There Is also a significant aubsidence Ii
war rumoB. This, tho opposition say
is because tho Government no longer con
siders such aliment necessary to excite
the e}ectorates. Though official circles
are'sure Of victory, they are much lees
confident that their majority will be large.
The Septennate majority Is dependent
upon q split In the Center party, in which
1t is calculated there are 90 Trienuists
against 80 Septennists. II this estimate
is realized and the Government fails 10
obtain a submissive majority for all It's
purposes, the new Reichtag will vote for
the military BILL, but will be equally
ready, as was the last Rslchtag, to resist
Bismarckian projects for securing perma.
nent supplies. r},.,E15~ a s71T = ."7I'
The Socialists hope to return 81 candi
dates, an increase OF 10 over their number
in the last Rcichstag. The Progressionists
are the only party with moderate expecta.
tions. They will be gratifed II they re-.
turn their former force. The results OF
the elections will bo known definitely
Tuesday night. It 10 reported that Prince
Bismarck desires to convoks the ReichssaR
for February 2S, and will demand urgency
for the military bill. IT6 - :,
Herr Liebknecht made an energetic and
successlul tour In Hesse after he was or.
dered to quit Oaenbach under penalty OF
arrest. He visited Dieburg, Ober. Roden,
Nieder-Roden and other places, freely
speaking at enthusiastic meetings. -
The ecclesiastical bill will be presented
IN the Herrenhause on Monday. Prince
bismarck'a short utterance on the bill
before the Herrenhause, making increased
charges for primary instruction rest with
the communes instead Of with the State,
contained significant reference to the
Reichstag. He aaid: II admit that the
bill is incomplete, but 1t is provisional
measure and will remain in iorcs only
Until the elaboration Of general law Of
primary instruction under the constitu.
tlon. Until the present the Reichstag has
refused to accord to the Government the
necessary means to cover expenditures on
these projects. We must wait for the
moment when the policy Of obstruction,
which isparalyzing our financial resources,
VIII cease, and We have majority in the
Reicnstag." -
The Very Rev. Dr.. stumpi, coadjutor to
the Roman Catholis Bishop of etrasburg,
has Issued a letter to the clergy OF the dio.
cese condemning the manifesto OF Cardi.
nal Jacobini, and directing the Center
party OF Germany to support the Sep
tennate. The Doctor declares that the
Cardinals views correspond neither with
the Pope's ideas nor Instructions, The
NORTH German Gazette prince Bismarck's
organl eays that If another dissolution OF
the Reichatag be needed, the Emperor
VIII lHsue peEsonal appeal to the nation.
1t is reported THAI Emperor William has
sent an autograph letter to the Pope,
thanking him for bis Intervention in favor
OF the Septennste. ,'-a s. 5751,.,,.